# Dumps



Flare hooks into the [Symfony VarDumper](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper.html) and records every value that passes through it. Any call to `dump()`, or anything else that ends up in `VarDumper::dump()`, is captured automatically and attached to the current trace or error report. There is nothing to call yourself.

You can disable this behaviour by calling `ignoreDumps()` on the Flare config:

```php
$config->ignoreDumps();
```

You can configure the maximum number of dumps tracked while collecting data in the case of an error as such:

```php
$config->collectDumps(maxItemsWithErrors: 10);
```